It is not uncommon for gasoline to get inside. This is the problem faced by petrol station workers and amateur mechanics who repair cars in private garages. But if the former often inhale gasoline vapors, then garage craftsmen sometimes have to suck fuel with their mouth through a hose, and at this moment it happens that part of the liquid is swallowed. What this is fraught with, doctors are well aware.
Gasoline pneumonia
Even a small amount of gasoline entering the body through the esophagus first of all provokes vomiting. This is due to the irritating effect of the liquid on the stomach lining. In the worst case, it can cause stomach bleeding. Usually unlucky mechanics who accidentally swallow gasoline, after vomiting, get off with drooling and symptoms similar to the state of intoxication, but the only difference is that even such a single case affects the kidneys and can further lead to the development of renal failure. However, graduate students of Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky argue that in 80% of such cases, a scanty amount of fluid, along with its vapors, enters the larynx, and then into the trachea. People who suck fuel through a hose do it while inhaling and, as a result, their lungs suffer,gasoline pneumonia develops. Symptoms are as follows: blue skin, pain in the chest, coughing up sputum with a bloody tint, body temperature rises and the general condition worsens. If gasoline got into the respiratory system, it means that a person still swallowed some of it, and abdominal pain, loose stools, repeated vomiting are added to the development of signs of pneumonia, and in the future, kidney and liver damage is possible. In these cases, the patient develops yellowness of the sclera, and on palpation it is noticeable that the liver is enlarged. A person who has swallowed gasoline cannot do without professional medical attention.the body temperature rises and the general condition worsens. If gasoline got into the respiratory system, it means that a person still swallowed some of it, and abdominal pain, loose stools, repeated vomiting are added to the development of signs of pneumonia, and in the future damage to the kidneys and liver is possible. In these cases, the patient develops yellowness of the sclera, and on palpation it is noticeable that the liver is enlarged. A person who has swallowed gasoline cannot do without professional medical attention.the body temperature rises and the general condition worsens. If gasoline got into the respiratory system, it means that a person still swallowed some of it, and abdominal pain, loose stools, repeated vomiting are added to the development of signs of pneumonia, and in the future damage to the kidneys and liver is possible. In these cases, the patient develops yellowness of the sclera, and on palpation it is noticeable that the liver is enlarged. A person who has swallowed gasoline cannot do without professional medical attention. A person who has swallowed gasoline cannot do without professional medical attention. A person who has swallowed gasoline cannot do without professional medical attention.
Lead poisoning
Garage repairmen who are constantly engaged in car repairs quite often accidentally swallow gasoline. Having caused the gag reflex, they believe that this annoying oversight will not lead to any consequences. However, they are wrong. Employees of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Ambulance named after I. I. Dzhanelidze confirm that gasoline does not really accumulate in the body. But the toxic substances dissolved in it, for example, tetraethyl lead, remain on the walls of the stomach even after vomiting. This organic lead compound is highly lipidotropic, that is, over time, it is deposited in human adipose tissues. The very substance tetraethyl lead has a psychotropic and neurotropic effect on the victim, due to the excitation of the central nervous system. It penetrates into the medulla oblongata, into the visual hillocks,in the cerebellum and in the region of the anterior central gyrus of the brain, which explains the appearance of hallucinations in a person poisoned with gasoline. Partially tetraethyl lead is excreted in urine and feces, and it can be determined that a person suffers precisely because of gasoline intoxication by detecting the presence of lead in urine. The fact is that signs of poisoning may not develop immediately, after a latent period, which sometimes lasts from a day to 5 days or more. It just depends on the accumulation of tetraethyl lead in the body. For example, only a week after a person has swallowed more than once over the past few days and then managed to spit out fuel from himself, without gastric lavage, he has increased sweating, weakness, low blood pressure and body temperature - about 35 degrees. Further intoxication manifests itself in the form of sleep disturbances, headaches,dizziness. One of the clearest signs of tetraethyl lead poisoning, the doctors of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, call the feeling that such a person experiences - it seems to him that he has a foreign body in his mouth and he tries to remove it by moving his tongue or fingers. But in reality there is nothing. Added to this phantom discomfort are feelings of fear, chest tightness, bad moods and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures. One of the clearest signs of tetraethyl lead poisoning, the doctors of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, call the feeling that such a person experiences - it seems to him that he has a foreign body in his mouth and he tries to remove it by moving his tongue or fingers. But in reality there is nothing. Added to this phantom discomfort are feelings of fear, chest tightness, bad moods and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures. One of the clearest signs of tetraethyl lead poisoning, the doctors of the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, call the feeling that such a person experiences - it seems to him that there is a foreign body in his mouth and he tries to remove it with a movement of his tongue or fingers. But in reality there is nothing. Added to this phantom discomfort are feelings of fear, chest tightness, bad moods and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures.which such a person experiences - it seems to him that there is a foreign body in his mouth and with the movement of his tongue or fingers he tries to remove it. But in reality there is nothing. Added to this phantom discomfort are feelings of fear, chest tightness, bad moods and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures.which such a person experiences - it seems to him that there is a foreign body in his mouth and with the movement of his tongue or fingers he tries to remove it. But in reality there is nothing. Added to this phantom discomfort are feelings of fear, chest tightness, bad moods and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures.bad mood and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures.bad mood and constant nightmares. In a severe form, speech disorder is observed - the affected person misuses and confuses words, may not say them, he has a wobbly gait and an uncritical attitude to his behavior. If by this time the victim is not hospitalized, then irreversible processes may occur in the brain structures.
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Gasoline substance abuse
All of the above signs and lesions apply to gasoline substance abuse. In order to induce euphoria and hallucinations, people, often young, adolescents, specifically swallow gasoline. Psychiatrists believe that in such cases, addiction also occurs, but such a deliberate constant intoxication of the body always ends not only with severe damage to the liver, kidneys, central nervous system, but also leads to an irreversible decline in intelligence, which entails disability. The person quickly turns into a vegetable and spends the rest of his life in a deranged state in a psychiatric hospital.
Svetlana Koroleva